“The return home was complicated”

After an active pregnancy. However, to run Paris Fashion Week, belly forward, it is with the same energy that Malika Ménard seems to live her first months of mom. However. Therefore, the birth of her little Sherazade, who arrived with a little advance in early May, was not easy to live in … Consequently, Two months later. For example, under the sun of Morocco where she took advantage of a break with her daughter and her husband Karim, Miss France 2010 confides frankly on this physical and emotional upheaval.

Paris Match. “the return home complicated” In addition, Interviews, posts on social networks, travel to Morocco … In addition, You seem to live a rather active maternity leave!
Malika Ménard. When you are independent there is not really maternity leave, you have the luxury of having the freedom of schedules. Furthermore, But the mental charge never really stops at the bottom.

How do you feel since childbirth?
I feel better. However, I had a complicated end of pregnancy. I was sick at the time of my delivery and I was operated on by Cesarean section so I lived a complicated return home. I felt physically diminished, in great vulnerability, with the mixture of emotions and hormones. Additionally, I was crying quite easily … We are not talking much about postpartum, however very real. But my daughter has just celebrated her two months and I feel better.

Do you slowly reclaim your body, after so many upheavals?
When you open your belly like that, you can’t walk as you want at first. So I had three weeks of real convalescence, before starting abdominal rehabilitation, while treating my caesarean scar with my physiotherapist. It is a story of patience and resilience.

Did you do sport before your pregnancy?
Yes, not necessarily in surpassing oneself but rather maintenance, with reforming, pilate … After two months of cut. my physiotherapist told me that I could slowly resume the pilate at a beginner level and see as I felt.

You have chosen “Sherazade” as a first name for your daughter. An obvious choice or who has taken time?
Before I even got pregnant. we already talked about first names that we liked for a girl or a boy, and that of “Sherazade” quickly came. We explored other tracks to be completely safe but we quickly returned to that one. From the fourth month of pregnancy. when I spoke to her in my belly I called him by his first name, even if I tried to hold back, in case I changed my mind at the “the return home complicated” last moment. Finally, as she came in an emergency, there was no longer time to think. But it made it possible to create an attachment even before his birth.

I would like my daughter to feel in emotional security.

Malika Ménard

Does this first name have a particular meaning?
I find it a beautiful first name. It is synonymous with princess and my first name Malika means “the queen” in Arabic. Sherazade is the narrator in “The Thousand and One Nights”, it is the heroine, the main character … As I love literature, I wanted to give my child a first name linked to this area. I would like her to like to read too, that we share this taste for literature.

I have already tried to read a story of “a thousand. one nights” but it’s a bit strong to read, they are long sentences. I grew up with this tale. I had a granny French teacher, another history-geo teacher … The books were omnipresent at home, they were gifts whose value was estimated.

Are there already important values for you that you plan to send him in the years to come?
Above all, I would like that she feels in emotional security, that she has confidence in her. I took a long time before having confidence in “the return home complicated” myself and I don’t want her to waste so much time. It is not a regret because it is my life story, but I would like her to win that time. I would like to avoid some disappointments, even if life necessarily has its share of good and less good times.